There’s a lot of work that goes into laying out a beautiful home. Art can help jazz up the place, but the last thing you want is a nice print that clashes with your room’s color theme. ColorSearch can help.

If you spend a lot of time tweaking your display, you may have noticed that El Capitan seems to get rid of advanced options, including native and target gamma adjustment. Thankfully, these settings are just hidden behind a keyboard shortcut.

Whether you’re designing a web page or just trying to find theme for decorating, having a good color scheme that looks good is important. The web site and iOS app Coloors makes finding new palettes as easy as pressing the space bar.

Color-coded calendars are a great way to organize your life, but after the first few colors, it can be hard to tell them all apart. This chart, which showcases Kenneth L. Kelly's 22 colors of maximum contrast, provides a selection of colors that are easy to tell apart.

If you're terrible at matching color combinations in clothing (or you're just color blind), you have two options: Stick to the essentials (black, grey, and white), or grab a friend who's familiar with the color wheel and color savvy and have them act as your "style spotter," so to speak.

Win/OS X/Linux: It's been years since f.lux, one of our favorite tools to protect your eyes, picked up a major update, but this new version is out of beta. It adds features like warmth as low at 2700/1200K, a "movie mode" that's warm but won't sacrifice shadows and detail, new hotkeys for manual control, and more.

The colors that surround us have an impact on the way we feel, and anyone who's ever studied or worked in art, design, or marketing knows this. This chart breaks down some of those connections between color and emotion, and shows you which colors to choose for the overall atmosphere you're going for.

Twilight is an Android app that automatically adjusts your device's brightness (or really, color temperature) over the course of the day, reducing the harsh whites and blues as the day progresses. We've talked about how to avoid eyestrain at the computer, but when you're not staring at a computer screen, you're…

Colors, we've seen before, quickly convey emotions and affect people's moods. Whether you're choosing paint for a room or are designing a presentation, this Psychology of Color chart, which matches specific Pantone colors, can come in handy.

PVC is a great material for DIY-enthusiasts, right up there with duct tape, Sugru, zip ties, and paracord. Usually you can only get it in white or grey/black which works for garage projects, but if you're making a wine rack, laptop stand, or other project where you might want the PVC to fit into the room's color…

The filters available in Instragram and other retro camera apps can be great, but they can also feel a little overused and annoying when every photo is flush with unnatural color. If you want to take a great photo that's been unnecessarily filtered with effects, Normalize will fix it for you in just a few taps.

OS X: Frank DeLoupe (or Frank, for short) is a handy little app that lives in your Mac's menubar and can grab any color from any pixel on your screen upon request. Just call it up via its global, user-specified hot key, select the color you want, and it'll provide you with CSS-ready RGBA or HEX values, or a variety…

Chalkboard paint is a great way to turn any wall or surface into a usable writing space, whether it's a storage container or the side of your desk, and we've even shown you how to make your own, but this recipe for DIY chalkboard paint lets you make it in any color you like, so you're not stuck with an all black wall…

Today's featured workspace comes from graphic designer and illustrator Erin Jang and clearly demonstrates how a simple use of color can make a huge impact on a bland gray wall, desk, or practically anywhere.